Institute of Astronomy Seminars take place each Wednesday in the Hoyle Building Lecture Theatre and are preceeded by a bread and cheese lunch in the Hoyle Foyer at 12:30. IoA Colloquia take place each Thursday during Full Term in the Hoyle Building Lecture Theatre and are preceded by tea at 15:30 and followed by a wine reception in the Hoyle Foyer. Joint Colloquia with the Cavendish Astrophysics group are on a Tuesday or Thursday.

Talks Archive

The Institute keeps an archive of previous talks at the IoA.

Additional Talks Information

Upcoming Institute of Astronomy Talks

Wednesday 31 May 2023

Jayanne English

Cosmos and Canvas: Using Data Visualization to Explore and Communicate Your Science

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:15-14:05
Venue: The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom  [details]

Thursday 01 June 2023

Various speakers

Astrostatistics and Astro-Machine Learning (Kavli Science Focus Meeting)

Series: Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars
Time: 09:00-17:00
Venue: Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise  [details]

Mark Thompson - AMD

Machine Learning Applied to Video Compression

Series: Data Intensive Science Seminar Series
Time: 13:00-15:30
Venue: Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building  [details]

Dr. Michelle Collins (University of Surrey)

Low mass galaxies as cosmological tools

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Hoyle Lecture Theatre - Details will be sent by email  [details]

Friday 02 June 2023

Various speakers

Astrostatistics and Astro-Machine Learning (Kavli Science Focus Meeting)

Series: Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars
Time: 09:00-17:00
Venue: Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise  [details]

Xavier Hernandez (UNAM)

Internal kinematics of Gaia DR3 wide binaries

Series: Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: Ryle seminar room + online  [details]

Thursday 08 June 2023

Kimihiko Nakajima (NAOJ)

Unveiling the Interstellar Medium in High-Redshift Galaxies

Series: Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: Ryle seminar room + online  [details]

Loubna Bouarfa - OKRA

OKRA

Series: Data Intensive Science Seminar Series
Time: 13:00-15:30
Venue: Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building  [details]

Daniel Eisenstein (Harvard)

Looking into the first billion years with JWST

Series: The Kavli Lectures
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (and online - details to be sent by e-mail)  [details]

Friday 09 June 2023

Stefania Barsanti (ANU)

TBD

Series: Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: in person & via zoom  [details]

Upcoming External Talks

Wednesday 31 May 2023

Tarek Anous (Queen Mary University of London)

Is spacetime a material?

Series: Theoretical Physics Colloquium
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email)  [details]

Friday 02 June 2023

Harvey Reall, University of Cambridge, DAMTP

Creases, corners and caustics: properties of non-smooth structures on black hole horizons

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Potter room/Zoom  [details]

Monday 05 June 2023

Manuel Arca Sedda

The formation of intermediate-mass and upper mass gap black holes in dense star clusters with up to 1 million stars

Series: DAMTP Astro Mondays
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: Streaming online  [details]

Friday 09 June 2023

Erik Jensko

TBD

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Potter room/Zoom  [details]

Monday 12 June 2023

Yasha Neiman (Okinawa)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]

Wednesday 14 June 2023

Professor Nils Andersson, University of Southampton

Fluid dynamics for neutron star mergers: variations, simulations and fluctuations

Series: Theoretical Physics Colloquium
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: Both in-person (MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email)  [details]

Friday 16 June 2023

Lieke van Son

TBD

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Potter room/Zoom  [details]

Monday 19 June 2023

Abhishek Maniyar (Stanford)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]